The Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust (WSGLT) completed a conservation easement on the LaPrele Creek Ranch on December 30, 2016. The 515 acre property is located southwest of Douglas and adds to three other ranches conserved by the WSGLT in Converse County, Little Deer Creek Ranch, Horseshoe Bend Ranch, and Creek Bend Ranch, which shares …

From upland birds to big game, I’ve hunted on private ranchlands in the West for over 20 years. Even before I was old enough to hunt, I would go out with my father and grandfather to learn, help find birds and spot deer. I can still remember the hunting stories from my grandfather when he …

The Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust (WSGLT), along with the Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resources Trust (WWNRT) and the Wyoming Game and Fish (WGF), joined together with ranch owner, Dave Slover to conserve portions of the Gooseberry Creek Ranch in the Big Horn Basin. The 1,450 acre easement, located southwest of Worland, is the second …

About 40 miles east of the Big Horn Mountains, in Johnson County, lies the small town of Kaycee. Maybe best known for the late country artist Chris Ledoux, Kaycee is an agricultural community steeped in Wyoming ag-history. Since 2010, the Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust (WSGLT) has been hard at work conserving the landscape of …

Summer 2016 was a productive and exciting time for the Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust (WSGLT). Between the Annual Roundup Barbeque, monitoring, the closing of another conservation easement, and the addition of two new staff members and one new board member, the WSGLT staff and board were kept busy. In May, Travis Brammer and Maggie …